Gibson
E108680
Gibson is a surname most prominently associated with Eleanor J. Gibson, an influential American psychologist known for her work on perceptual learning and development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gibson canonical | 37 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T913067 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gibson Context triple: [Eleanor Jess Atwood Gibson, familyName, Gibson]
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A.
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster is an iconic solid-body electric guitar renowned for its contoured body, three single-coil pickups, and distinctive tone that has shaped rock, blues, and pop music since the 1950s.
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B.
Mogami
Mogami was a lead ship of a class of Japanese World War II heavy cruisers known for their high speed, heavy armament, and participation in major Pacific naval battles.
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C.
Guitar Bains
Guitar Bains is a complex, militant member of the Seven Days vigilante group in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," whose radical views on racial justice profoundly shape the protagonist’s journey.
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D.
Williamson Music
Williamson Music is a music publishing company best known for handling the catalog of major Broadway and popular songwriters, including works by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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E.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gibson Target entity description: Gibson is a surname most prominently associated with Eleanor J. Gibson, an influential American psychologist known for her work on perceptual learning and development.
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A.
Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster is an iconic solid-body electric guitar renowned for its contoured body, three single-coil pickups, and distinctive tone that has shaped rock, blues, and pop music since the 1950s.
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B.
Mogami
Mogami was a lead ship of a class of Japanese World War II heavy cruisers known for their high speed, heavy armament, and participation in major Pacific naval battles.
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C.
Guitar Bains
Guitar Bains is a complex, militant member of the Seven Days vigilante group in Toni Morrison’s novel "Song of Solomon," whose radical views on racial justice profoundly shape the protagonist’s journey.
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D.
Williamson Music
Williamson Music is a music publishing company best known for handling the catalog of major Broadway and popular songwriters, including works by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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E.
Rockwell
Rockwell is an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1984 hit single "Somebody's Watching Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ psychologist ⓘ psychologist ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Medal of Science ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName |
Gib
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Gilbert ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Smith College
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Cornell University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
developmental psychology
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perceptual development ⓘ perceptual learning ⓘ perceptual psychology ⓘ perceptual psychology ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Clark L. Hull ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
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Scottish ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Gibson ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | son of Gib ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Eleanor J. Gibson ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Gibsonian theory of perceptual learning
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ecological approach to perception ⓘ ecological psychology ⓘ research on perceptual learning in infants ⓘ theory of direct perception ⓘ visual cliff experiment ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of psychology ⓘ |
| spouse | James J. Gibson ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Gibson Description of subject: Gibson is a surname most prominently associated with Eleanor J. Gibson, an influential American psychologist known for her work on perceptual learning and development.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gibson
subject linked to:
Stella Gibson in The Fall
subject linked to:
Donald
subject linked to:
Penrose